There are zapshrooms along the non-climbing path towards Zora Domain, particularly in the first third or so of the path.

The entire path is also a nice way to build up your regular arrow stash. Most of the Lizalfoses drop one or two sets of 5x arrows when you kill them. Even if not using an Ancient Bow while wearing the upgraded Ancient Armor set, with its 72 79 pt damage thanks to the Ancient Proficiency damage bonus of +80%, you still come out ahead in arrows. Depending on how many monsters and Blights you've killed to that point the path maxes out at one silver Lizalfos, and a few black Lizalfoses, but the rest are the weak green types.

As for arrows, I find it's better if you come at the path from the Zora city end. Coming at it "backwards" does mean it's longer to get to the zapshrooms if that's your primary focus, but the monsters are primarily oriented to face towards those coming from the wetlands end of the path, so it's easier to get in close.

Yes, but the key word is "buy". With arrow harvesting on the Zora path, you not only get the arrows but monster parts to sell, or use in upgrades or potions.

Mind you, as I've repeatedly said in this thread over time, I'm a massive arrow whore (to the point that right now I have over 900 regular arrows, and 100+ of the other kinds including Ancients). My priorities may not work for others.

A majority of that over 900(0!) are purchased... and I'm at over 700K rupees right now. "Have to pay for them" is not a serious impairment of making money hand over fist once you get past the first 50K or so.

Huh... I use arrows way too often to accumulate that many. I guess the flip side is that I tend to hoard melee weapons (well, maybe "hoard" isn't the right word; I just don't go through them as quickly). I guess I like to shoot first.

Mind you, if you want to play ambush style in terms of the path to the Zoras, if you're sufficiently good at climbing regardless of the weather (or you've cleared the divine beast and it's no longer permanently raining), it's remarkably easy to climb around the various choke points in the path and then get some stealth kills. I usually did a variation where I'd snipe one at a time, ramping up their anxiety and watching it fall down so that I could do it again. Solid Snake is not the only one who finds The Guards Must Be Crazy.

I also use Ancient Bows a lot, mostly with the Ancient Armor set equipped, so for all the non-silver, non-Lynel enemies, it doesn't take a lot to kill them. I also only have that much because I had just finished a round of the towns, stables, and wandering merchants, plus a Zora path sweep.

And tangentially, for all my arrow farming, until just a bit ago I hadn't bumped up against the 999 limit. A bit annoying to get the "can't carry any more" notice. (And purely for informational purposes, if you get a bundle but are only one or two arrows short of the cap, any arrows from that bundle beyond the cap [for example, picking up a 5x bundle when you have 998 arrows] just vanish.)

Ah, that's a bit more aggressive than my usual style, which is to grab a higher-end enemy bow and skulk around with the stealth set equipped. I much more fond of The Joys of Torturing Mooks. Perhaps a little heavier on the arrow consumption, but it's fun being the terror that stalks the terrors.

I had a problem when people would stop restocking their stores with arrows once I hit a remarkably low total arrow count. 2 or 3 hundred arrows (including the elementals) and suddenly no one would restock, even after blood moons. I enjoy the implication that I had used every arrow in Hyrule

Say to the others who did not follow through
You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you

You have to have less than 40 of a given type before they can restock that type, plus a blood moon to get everywhere to restock, it seems. (Previously I didn't think a BM factored into it, but it does seem to have an effect. Only a couple of stables had Beedle with arrows when I was running low earlier, with the others I checked being out until afterward.)

I'm not sure, from what little testing I've done, but I don't think using regular arrows for making Ancient ones counts, they have to be fired.

Stores that sell monster parts will restock them after a blood moon. (They have to wait for their supply to respawn, same as you.) I think other types of supplies have their own restock schedules, though.

Yeah... if you want to get yellow Lizalfos tails, your only choice is to the Gerudo Wasteland and hunt around the sands for them. Those are probably the foes I was most glad to fight via archery first and foremost; their electric field attack was such a pain to deal with when they got in melee range (particularly if you run into them at night and thus have to switch from the Desert Voe armor set). For the record, I typically ran into them most north of Gerudo Town.

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